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Job 19

Common English Bible CEB

1 Then Job responded:

2 How long will you harass me and crush me with words?

3 These ten times you've humiliated me; shamelessly you insult me.

4 Have I really gone astray? If so, my error remains hidden inside me.

5 If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me,

6 know then that God has wronged me and enclosed his net over me.

7 If I cry "Violence!" I'm not answered; I shout—but there is no justice.

8 He walled up my path so I can't pass and put darkness on my trail,

9 stripped my honor from me, removed the crown from my head,

10 tore me down completely so that I'll die, and uprooted my hope like a tree.

11 His anger burns against me; he considers me his enemy.

12 His troops come as one and construct their siege ramp against me; they camp around my tent.

13 He has distanced my family from me; my acquaintances are also alienated from me. those who know me have forgotten me. I'm a foreigner in their sight.

14 My visitors have ceased;

15 My guests and female servants think me a stranger;

16 I call my servant, and he doesn't answer; I myself must beg him.

17 My breath stinks to my wife; I am odious to my children.

18 Even the young despise me; I get up, and they rail against me.

19 All my closest friends despise me; the ones I have loved turn against me.

20 My bones cling to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 Pity me. Pity me. You're my friends. God's hand has truly struck me.

22 Why do you pursue me like God does, always hungry for my flesh?

23 Oh, that my words were written down, inscribed on a scroll

24 with an iron instrument and lead, forever engraved on stone.

25 But I know that my redeemer is alive and afterward he'll rise upon the dust.

26 After my skin has been torn apart this way— then from my flesh I'll see God,

27 whom I'll see myself— my eyes see, and not a stranger's. I am utterly dejected.

28 You say, "How will we pursue him so that the root of the matter can be found in him?"

29 You ought to fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings punishment by the sword. You should know that there is judgment.

New International Version NIV

1 Then Job replied:

2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

3 Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

4 If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

7 “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

10 He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

11 His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

12 His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

13 “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14 My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

15 My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.

17 My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

18 Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

19 All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

20 I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

21 “Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

23 “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!

25 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

27 I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, ’

29 you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. ”